Well, it *was* identical spec when new. The case has been missing since the late '90's, the 8088 is now a NEC V20, the clock speed is now ~17MHz, and the parallel port has a resistor based DAC free-soldered onto it, but it still runs. I use a single density 3 1/2 floppy to boot FreeDOS and then run a terminal emulator, though it has also run Minix, Xenix and Linux over the years.

If you have trouble getting FreeDOS to run, I still have the original EPSON DOS disk images somewhere.

Do what I do. Drive something nice and old. The cost to run is higher, but depreciation is zero.

Here's an example. 1980's Porsche 928, with a little shopping you can get one for under $8000 with 20K on the odometer. I can drive it 50K miles over the next five years and still sell it for $8000, with the only likely mechanical costs being brakes and tires.

Now here's the problem in the calculation. Car round trip in heavy traffic is about an hour, and depending on the day the bus can take anywhere from 2:30 to 3:15 to cover the same 40 miles.

That's 390-585 hours per year to save $320.

Until the prevailing wage falls to 50 cents an hour, no thanks.

Ran the calculation for my wife as well. If she were able to take a bus instead of driving, she'd waste only 195 hours per year, but public transportation would save her -$18.